A week's entertainment at a wedding. Containing Six Surprizing and Diverting Adventures. Viz. I. Monday. The unhappy Mistakes retriev'd by good Fortune. II. Tuesday. The fatal Mischiefs of unbounded Lust. III. Wednesday. The inhuman Father, and bloody Son. IV. Thursday. The danger of Back-Doors. V. Friday The lewd Wife, and perfidious Gallant. VI. Saturday. The generous Robber. With a most Diverting Introduction: Being an Account of a Spanish Wedding. Written in Spanish by the Author of Don Quixot, and now first Translated into English

All titles

• A week's entertainment at a wedding. Containing Six Surprizing and Diverting Adventures. Viz. I. Monday. The unhappy Mistakes retriev'd by good Fortune. II. Tuesday. The fatal Mischiefs of unbounded Lust. III. Wednesday. The inhuman Father, and bloody Son. IV. Thursday. The danger of Back-Doors. V. Friday The lewd Wife, and perfidious Gallant. VI. Saturday. The generous Robber. With a most Diverting Introduction: Being an Account of a Spanish Wedding. Written in Spanish by the Author of Don Quixot, and now first Translated into English
• Para Todos. Selections. English
• Diverting works of the famous Miguel de Cervantes

People / Organizations

• Juan Pérez de Montalván (Author)

Imprint

London : printed, and sold by J. Woodward, in St. Christophers-Alley in Thread-Needle-Street, 1710.

Added name

Zayas y Sotomayor, Mar'ia de, 1590-1650. Novelas amorosas y ejemplares. Selections. English.; Zayas y Sotomayor, Mar'ia de, 1590-1650. Parte segunda del sarao y entretenimientos honestos. Selections. English.; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.; Woodward, James, active 1707-1723, bookseller.

Publication year

1710

ESTC No.

T60535

Grub Street ID

286387

Description

[2], xii, 232 p. ; 8°.

Note

A reissue of 'The diverting works of the famous Miguel de Cervantes', 1709 (ESTC T60534) with a new title page

In fact translated by Edward Ward from Juan P'erez de Montalb'an's 'Para todos', from Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor's 'Novelas amorosas y ejemplares' and from her 'Parte segunda del sarao y entretenimientos honestos'. See Bourland.